Scooby Doo the dog is a Great Dane Dog Breed.
Scooby's creator, Iwao Takamoto, did say that he based the dog on a Great Dane, albeit with a few changes.
Scooby-Doo's origin story was actually pretty badass.
Warner Bros. "Scooby started his life as a subject in the Space Agency's breeding program, but escaped when one of the scientists bonded with him as a puppy, and decided to take him to America when he defected.
The dog Snoopy is a beagle dog breed.
Snoopy the dog on the cartoon is also a male dog.
Schulz based the Snoopy character on his childhood dog, named Spike.
And Spike was not a Beagle.
Spike was a Pointer crossed with an unknown hound.
This unknown hound was probably a Beagle because he looks a lot like a Beagle.
Snoopy was patterned after a dog Schulz had when he was 13 years old.
His name was Spike.
He was sporting the same colors Snoopy has black and white but was a mixed breed of "a little pointer and some other kind of hound.
Snoopy is an anthropomorphic beagle in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.
He can also be found in all of the Peanuts films and television specials.
Snoopy's original name was going to be Sniffy but that was already used in another comic.
According to ABC.com, Schulz remembered his mother once saying that if the family were to get another dog, it should be named Snoopy.